The Sun. — London, England, 1838-08-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Standard supposes it has stopped the mouths of all who wish the repeal of the Corn-laws, by a series of que ries; which are either irrelevant, or extravagant, or involve fals,e'assumptions. It is too bad in the present day to be grtsvely asked to answer such a query as this, " Ist, Would not an admission of foreign corn cause a great extent of British land to be put out of tillage, and, by consequence, a great number of agricultural labourers to be put out of employment ?" When did ever the Standard hear et land being put out of tillage by the importation of grain ? This query must be addressed to those extravagant spouters who tell the people that a free trade in corn would have the effect of bringing down wheat to 30s. the quarter. The truth is that very exaggerated notions are entertained of the effects of a free trade. One of the effects unques tionably -would be the raising of the price in the ex porting countries, and lowering somewhat the prices here ; but the quantity imported would not for some time be great. But when did any one ever hear of the land of a country going out of tillage in consequence of importation? Since the pasting of Sir John Newport's Act large importations of corn from Ireland have taken place ; but eho ever heard of one acre of England going out of tillage on that account ! There is every year a large acces sion to our population, and consequently an increasing de mand for food. Between 1821 and 1831 the population of Great Britain alone experienced art increase of upwards of two millions, and ae a nearly corresponding in crease took place betrieen 1801 and 1811, and between 1811 and 1821, wa may assume something like 1.5 per cent. as the regul a r decennial increase. With this con stantly increasing demand for food, the idea of land going out of tillage is preposterous. The average price might be 'somewhat lower by opening the ports, but 'the amotent of corn imported would not at first be great, and would not keep pace with the increased demand of the conseant addition to our popuiation. But the average price in this country would no doubt, be somewhat lower ; and, consequently, rents would be somewhat lower. And in case of a regular trade, should there be a bad harvest here, the chance would be greater of our obtaining the supply wanted abroad, than under a system which teaches the foreign grower to abandon all idea of the Britisb market. The Eeadish farmer would . also be greatly benefited ley a free trade ; for, the price not being forced bp here, and unnaturally de pressed on the Centineeit, an equalisation would enable him to export in yar.re of abundance. The Standard, from not being much. acquainted with agriculture, apparently supposes that a farmer may extend his corn growing ad A. system of agriculture that does not scourge and exhaust the soil requires a rotation of white with green crops. A farmer who arbitrarily violates the proportion which ought to obtain between his different courses makes his land a caput mortuum. We have neither space nor inclination to notice the various bugbears which the Standard has con 'ured up, such as the hundreds of thousands of agricultural labourers driven into manufactories, &e s But we observe that it is not true that " unfavourable seasons seldom afflict England without visiting our neigb.hours. A short crop in England is almost always accompanied by a similar scarcity on the Continent." Couetries in the same latitude, no doubt, have nearly the same seasons. But we find that between Land's .eand. and John o' Groat's-house there is a great variety of climate, and that a particular e rain or root is abunderet in one part of the island and scanty in another. Two raters ago there was an utter want of food for cattle in the south of England, and London was supplied with meat pi,acipally from Yorkshire and Scotland. The famine in the highlands and Islands of' Scotland was not felt in this part of the empire. But if there are two or three distinct climates in this island alone, the differences must be still gre ter over a whole continent. This island becomes earrowtowards the north, and there is besides a large proportion of the soil of the north of England and Scotland unfit for tillage. In the cases of a b.a harvest in the south and midland parts of England, and a good harvest in the north, the latter is unequal to the wants of the former. But if we take the countries corresponding with the north of Eng land and Scotland, we have a great breadth of some of the most fertile land of Europe. So far is it from being true that the harvest is bad in all countries at the same time, that, when the crops have been both scanty and badly got in here, the harvest has been excellent in many parts of the Continent, and, on the other hand, when the people of several countries on the Continent have been suffering, we have had abundance here. The latter was the case when the inhabitants of the greater part of Germany and Swit zerland, shortly after the peace, from a failure of their crops, experienced a dreadful famine, and the people were driven to eat all manner of weeds. We admit that th© landlords have an interest in having prices artificially higher here than on the Continent, and tenants who, on the faith of high prices, have take leases at high rents ; but all other classes would be benefited.—Mornin g Chronicle. Poor Lord Durham ! Perseverance in our intended strictures on what may doubtless be deemed the first and last acts of his Lordship's Viceroyship is now rendered un necessary ; though, if a general feeling of indignation have been excited by that nobleman's illegal and despotic ordi nances, the perfidious manner in which he has been treated by the Ministers under whose auspices he has acted, must really transmute such a feeling into something like pity for his fate. True to their base and selfish instincts, the time serving Whigs, in deference to whom the Noble Earl had at great personal sacrifice placed himself in the van of their Canadian conflict, have at the first shot deserted, disho noured, and dismissed him. it is in vain to pretend that their conduct towards Lord Durham has been otherwise than we have now described it ; nor, on learning the public affront which they have put upon him by advising her Majesty to disallow his proceedings, is it possible that his, Lordship can retain their commis sion for a single day ; unless, indeed, " that proud and generous spirii, heretofore reputed as the very model of sensitive honour," shall now be so abased by contumely as to sulemit ignominiously to those freedoms with his cha racter and coronet which formerly he would have periled his fife to resent. But, in truth, while the Noble Lord is much too acute not to perceive that he has fallen a victim to the sordid cowardice of those who (having authorized the dangerous powers which he could scarcely do otherwise than abuse) ought to have stood by him to the last, his Lordship is also too proud not to retire from a position the unpopularity of which they have sneakingly refused to share. The fact is, as the Noble Earl will doubtless feel, that finding their Cabinet to be in dangerous waters, they have treacherously flung him and his ordinances overboard, in order to save themselves. The thing is demonstrable. When the illegality of the Durham decrees was first broached in the House of Peers, the Ministry, never dreaming that their tenure of office was likely to be affected by any results which might follow, not only made a consi derable effort to deny that illegality, but even hazarded a - wordy defence oftheir inculpated and absentfriend. Both Lord Melbourne and Lord Glenelg affected to be quite big upon the occasion. While the latter declared that, with the excep tion of the little Bermudean flaw, the ordinances were fully justified by the circumstances of the colony, the former Minister even carried himself so high as to rebuke and de nounce Lord Brougham for having presumed to question their wisdom, or to do aught that might weaken their autho rity. Matters, however, soon began to assume a more me nacing aspect. A pair of fetters for Lord Durham were already upon the anvil. The declaratory and restrictive Bill was actually produced ; and, in spite of their mighti 'acmes in office, was read a second time, with the appalling certainty that it would go down in triumph to the House of Commons, where, supported alike by Radicals and Con servatives, it behoved of course to become law. Now, as the Whigs foresaw that their chivalrous, though futile, perse verance against a measure so genera ll y approved of would necessarily lead, first to their defeat, and then to their eject ment from office, the alarming alternati‘c of out or in pressed itself upon their choice with an urgency which admitted of neither evagion nor delay. If they had continued to oppose a Bill which, by partially adapting itself to the views of the Radicals, and by enabling the Conservatives to correct the mischiefs resulting from an abuse of their confid, nee, de served the consistent support of both these parties, the probability —nay, the certainty, seemed to be that the Whi gs would have been outvoted by such an overpowerin g majority as must inevitabl e have extorted their resignation. :Neither could they shut their eyes to the fict that th-ir exit in such circumstances was by no means likely to be either graceful or profitable. When a Ministry sacrifice office in asserting or defending a point of popular liberty, their retirement is en , rally advantageous to themselves, as well by investing them with nn augmentation of cha racter, as by uniting the country to accelerate their return. But in this Canada affair there was nothing creditable to go out upon. On the contrary, public opinion was universally enlisted against them ; and, worse than all, tlirir political opponents, having support e d a more generous and constitutional policy, were likely to come into power with the national feeling running; decid edly in their favour. Things, in short, had arriv e d a t suc h a pass, that u nless something e shipwreck re immediately do ne o f a hold a n d a d equa t e character, the v of the Whi gs was inevitable. 'fifty knew this well, and as the . Canada Restriction Bill was rapidly making hea d against them, not a moment was to be lost in averting threatened dan e". virtue of neces ger ; so, at the e'ev-rith hour, they h matte a sity, supported the Bill they had Fret iously deprecated, and flung Lord Durham to the winds. When Viscount bourne told the Howe nt Peers that he had advised her Majesty to disallow the Durham decrees, his Lordship hie hibited a sp ectac l e o f po li t i cal hum ili at i on w hi c h we veri y believe has never yet been equalled. What ! disallow I the ordinances which a stern necessity (as was alleged) had rendered imperative—which Lord Glenelg had pledged himself to justify " when the proper time arrived," and whi c h L or d B rougham had been i n- dignantly denounced for even venturing to breathe upon ? " Oh, but the House of Peers," says Lord John Russell, " contaitss many high legal authorities, to whose opinion s u p on th es e ordinances, tholag h net lit accordance with th e o pi n i o ns of Minis e ; it becomes the Govern ment to defer !" Wi4y, this is mending matters with a witness. Tteekss *hat are we to think of their oi,vn Lord Chancellor and Attorney-General, by whom the legality of time ordinances has been stoutly and doggedly main tained ? Are these functionaries no longer to be regarded as " high legal authorities ?" The plain fact is this, they have been obliged to eat their biscuit below hatches during the portentous storm—Ministers thereby showing that in their cowardly anxiety to escape being wrecked, the repute of their friends at home is as little regarded by them as the honour of their colonial officers. At all events Lord Durham, as the Jonah of their recent disasters, has been committed to the nether deep , ; and by thi s n o table expe dient they have continued, aRh the mvstalous permission of heaven, to weather through their first Parliamentary voyage as her Majesty's responsible advisersl=~Emes. The speculators in Foreign Corn-'the disinterested fra ternity who are at the hottotti ui the outcry for an opening of the Ports and a itopeal of the Corn-laws —are, we be lieve, likely to bUrn their fingers by calculating upon a scar city in England arising from a scanty harvest. By ae cennts which we have received from various quarters, we are enabled to assert, with some degree of confidence, that, except on cold and poor lands, the Wheat crop will be an average crop, and in some places better than an average crop. The very circumstance of the harvest being a late one must have a considerable effect in raising the price of Wheat, for if the harvest had began at the usual time there would be now a considerable portion of this year's grain in the Market, which may be said to be cow in reserve, just as if it were stored up in a granary for future con sumption. Though the delay of the harvest in conse quence of the backward state of the crops in some de gree, accounted for the rise in the price of Wheat, the ap prehension of a scarcity still more contributed to that re sult ; but for the latter we believe there was no better foun t dation than the interested fictions of the speculators and jobbers. A few days more of such sunshine as we had during the greater part of last week will effectually dis sipate all alarm on this vital subject, and afford the country the strongest assurance of a competent supply of the prime necessary of life, from native industry and the fertility of our own fields, without paying away to the Polish serfs of the Russian despot the gold which enables the English farmer to pay rent and taxes, and the wages of his labourers. As to the foreign corn now in bond in this country, it may possibly be about a week's supply ; but, such as it is, we understand that the whole or greater part of it has been sold and resold several times without being taken out of bond, and we do not wonder that those who bought on the speculation of a great advance in price are very anxious to get it off their hands before the British grain comes into the market. Hence, perhaps, the extraordinary precipitancy . with which a Court of Common Council was I convened to discuss the question of opening the ports ; but that speculation, like the speculation upon a scar city, luckily turned out a complete failure. It would be strangely contradictory indeed of the London Cor poration to advocate a free trade in corn, seeing that it rigorously enforces by heavy penalties the principle of mo nopoly within its own jurisdiction, in preventing all but those who " take up their freedom" from carrying on a retail trade in the city. The sapient economists who would strip the British farmers of efficient legislative protection ought to begin by relieving them from legislative imposts. If the Cor n-laws were blotted from the Statute-bock to-mor row, and the Westminster economists had their wish of converting the wheat fields of England into a waste, only fit for the erection of cotton factories, this country would then be reduced to a state of the most miserable depen dence upon foreign powers, its rivals or its enemies, for a supply of food. A scarcity on the Continent, or the with holding of foreign supplies of grain, from any cause, would be followed by absolute fanzine in England, and all its ter rible consequences. Against such a national evil the Corn laws are our protection. Let them be repealed without removing the fiscal burdens of the farmer, and at once an immense proportion of the corn land of this country will be thrown out of cultivation.—Morning Herald. It seems likely that the public will be perseveringly teased during the autumn by the dense stupidity and bab bling impertinence of the Corn-law-repealing agitators. Contemptuously scouted as these selfish chatterers have been from both Houses of Parliament, they seem to think that during the prorogation they may succeed by impudent assertion and unceasing noise in making some impression upon the ignorant multitude—that multitude which they hope ultimately to oppress and impoverish more thoroughly than even Whig Legislation and Government have yet been able to do. The opponents of the Corn-laws are al most universally the harsh, insolent oppressors of the poor. The tendency of money capital when unrestrained by the laws is to erect itself into an absolute tyranny over the fate of those who have nothing but their industry to de pend upon, and the enemies of Corn-laws are the money capitalists. They are not satisfied, because they can not bring down the British labourer to the same level of small wages and poor living as prevail among Continental labourers, and they know that the Corn-laws form the great impediment to the dis astrous change—disastrous to the British labourer, but profitable for them. Hence their anxiety to have these laws repealed. Hence their determination to take advan tage of every circumstance which may favour their gross misrepresentations on the subject. Hence their avowed resolution to concert together and to combine, in order to work upon the present temper of the people while they are alarmed by the high price of corn. They bad better take care lest the alarm of the people should be turned into indignation against those who have caused the present high price of corn. The people know very well that since the Corn-laws have been in full operation they have had wheat at forty shillings the quarter, and even less than that. It must be clear to them, therefore, that Corn laws merely do not cause the high price. Is there then scarcity along with the Corn-laws ? Certainly not. Whatever the result of the harvest may be—and the prospect we again affirm, as we have affirmed before, is not gloomy—there is at present no real scarcity. But jobbing speculators, with the cant of Whig libe rality and free-trade philosophy for ever upon their tongues, may produce an artificial scarcity. They may en. ploy their capital in getting a command of the food of the people, and thus enrich themselves by a monstrous mo nopoly while they blind the eyes of the silly to their de praved extortion, by crying out against the monopoly which they say is given by the law to the landed interest. If the landed interest have a monopoly the benefit of it is, at all events, shared by the whole agricultural body, and by those who live upon the custom of the landed proprie- • tors. But the monopoly of the forestalling capitalist is of a much narrower and more extortionate description. It gives security and protection to no class. It does not up hold either the cottage of the poor man or the permanent dwelling of the resident proprietor. It goes to pamper the most dissolute portion of society, who spend their ill gotten gains in the most questionable pleasures of our de praved cities, and whose wealth is so transferable —so little connected with country—that it may be, and is, carried about the world to whatsoever place the pleasures of sense and the privileges of tyranny may be most con veniently enjoyed by " liberal" adventurers. An I no doubt one great object of those cunning men who combine to overthrow the Corn-laws, and who set on dull pedaets and babb'ing sciolists to deafen the public with clamour concerning the want of " science," which these crazy creatures say the system of Corn-laws exhibits, is to make this occasional monopoly a permanent one. So long as the food of the people is raised by British farmers, whose habits are formed to bring their produce gradually to market, and whose stoi•es are scattered over the whole surface of the kingdom, the capi talists cannot commsnd the stock of corn which the people intrtestooei priceselat. a Theys may eannot dole it out in such quantity and TbeY m.iy by a great effort,best suit n d theirat the prospects eiese oft b e e f s p e r a o s fi o t n just . before the harvest affords a fresh supply, produce a very important temporary effect ; but upon the whole year even their m oneyinsufficient to contend with the c i rcum stances owz under whi c h the supply is afforded. B ut it would be far otherwise, if the food of Great B r i ta i n depended foreign cou n t r i es , and could he controlled im olledb p ; the money comman d i n the trading r w t a b t e i e o er f r b o a n a l seaports of the kingdom. The capitalists—the money capitalists, whose tender mer cies may be estimated from the state in which factory be have of a theinss sceolr.enr-efooadodofgrathspein-country. labourers, both infant s and adults, are found—they would Whether the that would mono- poly than that which is said to be given to the g 13ritish agriculturists by the Corn Laws, we leave to be judged ot by experience. Let those who have had dealings with the landed gentry end the farmers, as well as with the town capitalists and manufacturers, say in whose • hands they would rather be placed when in a situation not successfully to resist extortion. It is no douht easy to delude the crowd by the vulgar cheat of representing. to them that as they have more money to pay for bread now than they would have if bread were as cheap as it is in Poland, they are. therefore, iyjured by the Corn-laws, which, under ordinary circumstances, will not suffer the corn of Poland to he brought here. But such working people as are old enough to have had twenty years' expe rience, and recollection enough to make use of it, will pro iy:bly inform their friends in the crowd that " good times," and the times of cheap bread, are anything but synony mous. They who have read a little, or who can read, may easily satisfy themselves that in those parts of Europe where bread is the cheapest, the working people are by much the most miserable. But it does not require reading or travel ling beyond their own experience of their own country to THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1838. satisfy them that cheap bread and comfort for the working man and his family do not go together, but the contrary. Cheap bread an d genera l di s t ress o f the working classes :lave commonly existed together, ever since our taxation has been at its present height, and, indeed, if we could afford the time and space, we might without difficulty demonstrate that, chile such a revenue as that of England is to be raised from the capital and industry of the country, it is impos s ibl e th a t corn can b e ve ry cheap without being accompanied with general distress. The working people ,vill learn, not from the vain pedantic babblers who affect peculi :r profoundness in political science, but from their own practical experience, that whether the money price of corn be high or low matters not to them who do not hoard money ; but whether they can get little corn or much for their week's labour, does matter to them very m uc h. Now, in the countries where corn is cheapest men get the !cast guar:tits- of it for their week's labour,, and in th ose periods in which corn has been cheapest in England —at a ll ,vents fur the last fiur-and-twenty years—the working people have been able to get the smallest quant i ty of it for their labour. It has happened, either from the a b sence of employment, or the low waves when employed, that the cheap bread time was the least prosperous time for the workin g man. And so it would be again, let babbling conspirators against the Corn-laws say what they will. Let them then to concert. arrant tm,l,hceoamt cheats, i n a e n ,' d ' be they will be found fobuyntdheoupteionptle theyheend would oppress.—Alorning Post. execrated No commentary that we could makeon last Session of Parliament, could exposeits derelictions with the failure of th e an effect at all proportionate to that m anifested by the mi n ntory aspect which the millions are now assuming in differ ent parts of the United Kingdom. The meetings at Bir mingham, Dublin, and Manchester—the proceedings of 'which we have lately published—prove at least one thing, that the people are by no means satisfied with the conduct of their representatives and hereditary guardians. Th e British people, though immovably tenacious of t heir pur pose, are not fond of political commotion, nor desirous of change merely from a love of novelty ; on the contrary, they are proud—and in some instances justly so—of their laws and institutions ; they glory in their constitution, even to its very faults, and from these national charac teristics it is that when they make a general demonstra tion like that now in course of action, two things may be regarded as indisputably certain ; first, that there is something grievously wrong in the State ; and, secondly, that a power is evolving itself which will redress that wrong in despite of opposition. Though less numerously attended than at Birmingham, the meeting at Manchester, an account of which appeared in Saturday's Advertiser, evinced a no less determined spirit to enforce the ameliora tion of our institutions. Nor was the memory of the mas sacre at Peterloo—a massacre perpetrated on those guilty of no crime but that of claiming rights, a portio n of which have since been conceded, and the rest of which are now demanded with loud acclaim in all parts of the United Kingdom—calculated to diminish the enthusias m or in crease the forbearance of the assembled multitude. Let it not be supposed from our fervid sympathy w ith th e mee tings referred to that we arc abetting revolutionary excitements—quite the reverse ; we regret the necessity for such multitudinous assemblies ; but when th e L eg i s l ature neglects or betrays its sacred functions—when industry is swindled out of its due reward—when the great majority of the people are excluded from the right of suffrage, and those enfranchised controuled in its exercise by undue influence— wpoouoldr t s o us r t e a s i o n rt th t e o m th in e w w o h r e k n h o r n e s s t e r , ic w ti l v t • i e l e tahwes foodco m compel ie t h h e as such cllngrievances and independent ain assembles, lueps i so, upon excluded theiffor country,fromno ot our hear n dp purpose rParliamentts— to exercise its powers of de c l amat i on, and indulge i n broils which would be disreput a bl e t o a d ecent de b at i ng club, under such circumstances w h a t can t h e people d o than n e ,g.a but assemble together, discuss their wrongs, and the mode of relief resolve, petition, unite, and by a combined effort do that justice to themselves which Parliament denies them. We regret the nece ss ity o f suc h d emons t rat i ons, w hi c h tend to stimulate the people to an exertion beyond that healthful agitation essential to a free Constitution, and because they interrupt business and are liable to be more influenced by the passions than the judgment ; but great as is our regret in this regard, it would be infinitely more so were the people to rest s l av i s hly pas sive under old-standing oppressions, and the insults by which these oppressions have been still farther embit tered. Thanks to the energy, and still more to the intelligence of the people themselves, they need not mourn like those without hope, as a steady, combined, and above all, peaceable perseverance in the course they have com menced, must secure such a perfect consummation of their wishes. Eighty-nine towns have already appointed dele gates to a Central Committee, to meet in London, under the denomination of a National Convention. Had Parlia ment done its duty by the people, there would be no neces sity of confiding the redress of grievances to any hands but those in which the Constitution has vested the Guardian ship of the national interests. On Parliament itself must therefore devolve the responsibility of having provoked the present mighty combination, and of the results which may ensue froM it. Of these results, however, we are not ap prehensive, but it would be more agreeable to see them ac complished by voluntary concession than by compulsion. The masses, however, are now in motion—may they be guided by wisdom—united in sympathies, and in p eace obtain the perfect accomplishment of those rights whi c h nature ordained their inalienable inheritance !—Mornin g Advertises'. MORALITY OF CORNWALL.—By the Criminal Returns from the Home Office, it appears that Sornersetshire is the most wicked county in England ; out of every 393 peo ple, one is committed : this is a higher proportion of crime than exists in any county in England. In Devonshire, it is one person out of 736 ; in Cornwall, one out of 1,071 ; so that Somersetshire is twice as wicked as Devonshire, and nearly three times as wicked as Cornwall.— West Briton. On Monday evening Moses Roper, a runaway American slave, addressed a numerous and highly respectable meeting in the Trades' Hall. It could not have been ex. pected that he should exhibit a fluent oratory (it is net above eighteen months since be began to learn to read); but his na tural talents are evidently of a superior order, and his diction is amazingly correct. His subject was, of course, negro sla very, as it now exists in the United States of North America, and he was able to keep up the interest of his hearers to the end, through the striking nature of the facts he detailed, and his evident personal experience of what he related. He pro. duced specim ens o f t h e i mplements of negro torture , e mploy e d by the Rep u bli can A mer i cans and of the irons wh i c h are ma d e to fetter the li m b s o f t h e s l ave, suspected of i n d u l g i n g a wish to be free. He is quite a young man, apparently twenty-two or twenty-three years of age.—Glasgow Argus. FIGIITING.—This day week, a fight between a man from Mansfield and another from Warsop, took place at Cuekney-Norton. The quarrel arose out of a bet which they had made previous to the Mansfield races, and they agreed to fight fur 191. The fight lasted an hour, arid one of the corn. batants was severely injured, and was conveyed home some hours aftewards.—Doneaster,Gazette. On Friday evening an inquest was held at Middle sex linpital, on the body of Ann Woodford. From the evi dence of several witnesses it appeared that on Friday after noon last deceased, who had a canful of milk in her hand, was crossing the road from the Green Man and Still, Oxford street, and made her way between a cab and a hackney. coach, which were standing on the rank, at a period when an omnibus was proceeding at a moderate rate towards Pad dington. She was called out to by the waterman, and en deavoured to recede; but, before she had time to do so the pule of the vehicle knocked her down, and two of the wheels went over her shoulder and neck. The poor creature was picked up and conveyed in a coach to the hospital, where, from the dreadful injury inflicted on her person, she expired on the evening of Wednesday. No blame whatever is attri butable to the driver, who pulled up as speedily as possible, and afforded all the assistance in his power. Verdict— " Accidental death." A SUTHERLANDSHIRE PATRIARCH.— Mr. Donald Nl•Kay, Crombach, expired at Brawlbin, on the 4th instant, in this county, at the patriarchal age of 108. Tne deceased served in the Reav militia so far back as the year 1745, the memorable one of the rebellion, and was one of those engaged in the capture of the money which had been forwarded from the Continent for the use of the unfortunate Prince Charles Stuart. The old man had a store of anec dotes relative to the history of the eventful period alluded to, at also of many remarkable individuals who then figured in the scene of action. M.Kay was the intimate friend of the celebrated Rob Doun, the bard of Lord Reny's country, whose poetical effusions were held by him in much estima tion, and some of whose favourite songs he was in the habit of chaunting until within a few days of his death. H e was Man of exceedingly sober habits, having been rarely or ever •known to indulge in ardent spirits. During the latter part of his life he was employed in selling cattle and horses, and visited the Ikauly mtaket for this purpos e so l ate as the year 1832. —John o' Groat Journal. TEE-TOTALISM.-A meeting was held on Wed nesday evening, at the Queen's Dock, of the Marine Total Abstinence Society. It was most numerously attended, and seventy•four members enrolled their names. The speakers were warm and energetic in the cause, and the meeting was obliged to be adjourned to yesterday evening._Li ver _ pow Mercury. —[Meetings of this kind are of almost daily occur rence throughout the entire country.] Grouse shooting commenced on Monday morning, and the game is said to be plentiful. The coaches from the north that arrived in town on Tuesday and yesterday brought each a number of boxes filled with game. We understand there has been more posting on the north road this year than for a number of years past.—Edinburgle Courant. The 'wandering piper performed i n the Saracen's Head lon Hall, Paisley, on Monday evening last, Mr. Fraser having tendered the use of the room and the gas gratis for the occasion. After defraying the expenses of advertising, the piper handed over the balance, amounting to 71., to James Caldwell, Esq., for behoof of the Paisley Widow and Orphan Society. The piper, on a former visit to Paisley, the sum of 71. Ids. to the House of Recovery. Presented NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, Aro. 18.—The Herald, 28, Captain Nias, Major-General Sir R. Arbuthnot on board, to take command in the island of Ceylon, sailed this morning for the East In dies, calling at Plymouth. The Athol troop ship, Mr. Bellamy, master, arrived this evening from St. Sebastian. She brings no news. She con veyed out provisions, stores, and reliefs, and brings home a few invalids and Captain Tinitlar,, appointed to t!ie command of the Hand of Ascension. The Apollo troop-ship, Mr. Earley, master, sailed on Sa turday, with the depot companies of the 56th Regiment on board, for Cork. The Rover, 16, is ordered for commission at Plymouth, Commander T. C. Symonds is appointed to her. The Cracker cutter, tender, sailed on Tuesday, for Jersey, to urotert the Britsh oyster fishery in that quarter. The Racer hac been taken out of dock this week, and or dered to be brought forward immediately for commission. Sir W. Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, and C. Wood, Esq., Secretary o! the Admiralty, have been waiting here for two days the arrival or the Firebrand steamer from the River, with some of the Lords of the Admiralty on board, on her way to Plymouth and Pembroke for the purpose of inspecting the establishments there. She arrived this evening. Mr. Sadler, the second Master Attendant at this Dock yard, is ordered to Pembroke, to bring round to this port the Daphne, 18, recently launched. The Minden, 74, Captain Sharpe, C B , arrived at Gibral tar from Lisbon en the 28th ult ; and the Weazle, 10, Lieut. J. Simpson, on the fallowing day, eleven days from Plymouth. The latter proceeded on to Malta the same day. The Jasseur, 16, Commander Boultbt , e, arrived there on the 30th ult., in seven days from Plymouth, and went on to Malta on the 2d inst. The Harlequin, 16, Captain Erskine, arrived there on the 31st ult. The Rastellan, R. Y. S., P. S. French, Esq., arrived on the 28th ult. at Gibraltar, and sailed for Cork on the 2d instant. The Messenger steam-transport is found to be so defective as to render it necessary to bring her into dock. Her condition is supposed to be such that, after a survey has been held upon her, she will be sold or broken up. The Venerable, 74, is to be towed round to Plymouth by the Gordon steamer. This ship was to have been sold on Thurs day last, but as the estimated price was not obtained for her it is presumed she is to be broken up. Sailed, on Sunday last, the Robert Small, Fulcisers, for Bengal ; the Eagle, Patterson, for the Cape and the Mauri tius; on Monday, the Mermaid, Chapman for Bombay; the Wellington packet, Chadwick, for New Yotk ; Victoria, M'Auliffe, for the South Seas ; Morley, Evans, for Bombay ; Star, Fletcher, for Barbadoes; Malvina, Burton, and War.s brick, Thickbroom, for Alexandria; and Albion, Ives, for Cadiz; on Tuesday, the Carnatic, Voss, for the Cape and Madras; on Wednesday, the Wellington, Liddell, for the Cape and Madras; on Friday, the Atlas, Hunt, for the Mau ritius. The ships Livorno, Laurel, and Lively have arrived this week from the Baltic, with hemp and spars for the dock yard. At Spithead—Edinburgh, Pique, Tribune, Columbine, Atholl (troop-ship.) In Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Hastings, Excellent, Royal George, Actaeon, Orestes, Pantaloon, Firebrand and Messenger steamers, and Gipsy tender. The Buzzard was commissioned on Wednesday, at Ply mouth, by Lieutenant Charles Fitzgerald. Lieutenant-General Sir Jasper Nicholls sailed on Tuesday, in the Carnatic Indiaman, to take the command of the army in the Madras territory. The Admiralty gold medal has been awarded to Dr. Charles M'Arthur, Surgeon of the Rodney, for having kept the best medical journal in the service. ROYAL MARINES.—First Lieutenant Edward Bathurst, to be Captain, at Chatham, vice W. S. Knapman, placed on the retirement ; First Lieut. H. W. Parke, of the Royal Marine Artillery, to be Adjutant, at Woolwich, vice Bathurst ; First Lieut. Hamnett Parke, to the Royal Marine Artillery, vice H. W. Parke ; Second Lieut. Christopher D. Harrington promoted to First Lieutenant, vice Hamnett Parke ; Messsrs. C. F. Menzies (son of Lieutenant-Colonel Menzies, K. H., R. M.A.), J. G. Alexander (son of the late Capt. Alexander, R.N.), and H. Brooker (son of Henry Brooker, Esq., Mas ter, R.N.), are appointed Second Lieutenants. First Lieut. Arnold and a party are to embark on board the Actaeon. Mr. John James Winsom, Clerk of the Edinburgh, passed his examination for a Purser on the Ist instant. The following Warrant Officers have had pensions granted to them this week :—Mr. G. Fleming, gunner, 301. ; Robert Warwick, cook, 201. 4s. Id. ; Edward Davis, cook, 201. 4s. ld. ; William Orr, cook, 20/. 4s. ld. ; and William Beal, cook, 18/. 4s. id. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. Assistant- Surgeons.—Mr. Booth, of the Hastings, and Mr. George Jones, late of the Forte, to the rank of Surgeon. Captains.—Lord John Churchill, to the Vernon ; Robert Russell, to the Actaeon. Commanders.—Peter Christie, to the Rose ; Sidney H. Usher, to the Coast Guard ; Lewis T. Jones, confirmed to the Princess Charlotte. Lieutenants.—Benjamin Fox, to the Hercules ; J. A. Mends, Roger Curtis, to the Actaeon ; Jocelyn Wailer, Thomas Creser, Thomas Tribe, and Henry Johnstone, to the Coast Guard ; John Lunn, to the Pluto. Masters.—E. Couzens, to the Actaeon ; Lawson, Master's Assistant of the Seaflower, to be Second Master of the Pluto ; Edward Maunder, to the Penguin. Surgeons.—John Dunlop, to the Actmon ; George Jones, to the Favourite. Assistant- Surgeons. —J. Macleod, to the Actaeon; Messrs. J. M. Mustard, B. Horsburgh, and L. Campbell, of Bri tannia, to Melville ; Mr. Patterson, of Britannia, to the Salamander; L. S. Cunningham, to the Espoir ; J. G. Risk, and Alex. Brown (additional) to Royal Adelaide ; James Peters, to Skylark, vice Crichton, to the Buzzard; W. Hobbs, to the Bonetta ; Wm. W. Baynes, to Volcano. Pursers.—J. B. Hutchings (late Secretary to Vice-Ad miral Sir P. Campbell, on the coast of Africa) to the Actaeon. Mates.—Messrs. E. Davison and M. Lowther, to the Hastings ; R. R. Easto, to Hercules ; C. Norman, to Royal Adelaide. Midshipmen. —Messrs. N. Heath, Lyons, Borland, and Cerjat, to the Hastings ; W. Cudworth, to Excellent. Clerks.—Mr. Barnes, to Victory; Mundell (additional), to the Bellerophon ; Mr. H. Hunt, schoolmaster of Victory, to be Clerk of the Orestes. Warrant Officers.—..l4lr; Cudlipp, boatswain, and Jonathan May, Carpenter, to the Actaeon; W. Kelly, Supernumerary Gunner of Victory , to be Gunner of Herald. (Froiti the Devonport Independent.) PLYMOUTH, Aua. 18 —Her Majesty's brig, Royalist,lo, Lieut. Hensley, Commander, arrived here last evening from San Se bastian, which port she left on Sunday evening last—all was quiet—left there her Majesty's ship North Star, Commodore Lord John Hay ; Phoenix and Comet steamers. Lieutenant Randolph, promoted from the North Star, came passenger in the Royalist. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are expected to pay an official visit to this port on Monday next. Her Majesty's brig Columbine, 16, Com. Elliott, will call in here on her way to the Coast of Africa, Her Majesty's packet brig Nightingale having been found unfit for sea, is ordered to be paid off. Her Majesty's brigantine Buzzard, 6, was commissioned on Wednesday, by Lieut. Fitzgerald, for the, Coast of Africa. Her Majesty's brig Rose, 16, has been commissioned at Sheerness. Her Majesty's packet Peterel was warped alongside the Sheer-hulk on Tuesday. to have her masts put on board, pre vious to being commissioned. The Goodwill lighter arrived on Wednesday from Chatham, with stores, :The Duck lighter sailed .on . Wednesday, with stores, for Woolwich. Orders have been received at this Dock-yard, to bring for ward, with all possible dispatch, the Rover, 16, lately paid off, for re-commission. In Hamoaze—Royal Adelaide, San Josef, Hercules, Jupi ter, Pilot, Buzzard, Penguin, Skylark, Nightingale. On Friday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, a quantity of gunpowder exploded on the premises of Mr. Lawford, gunmaker, of Cleveland.sticet, Fitzroy-squve, which tore away part of the roof,- and seriously injured Mr. Lawford and his sun, a fine youth, about 14 years of age. A fatal accident occurred on Thursday night on the London and Birmingham Railway to a dairy man named Pritchard, who resided near Chalk Farm. He was returning by the last train, with a quantity of hay he had purchased, and when near to Kilburn, he by some means slipped off the carriage, when the wheels passed over him and killed him on the spot. An inquest was held on Friday at the Constitution, Great James-street, Lisson-grove, on the body of a woman named Bolton, the Wife of a journeyman plasterer, residing in the above neighbourhood. The inquiry excited some interest owing to a report that the deceased had experienced treatment of a brutal nature from her husband, but as the evidence of man y witnesses went to show that so far from such being the case she had been well used, and properly attended to, the j ur y returned a verdict of " Natural death." An inquest was held on Friday night in White cross.s St. tree, Luke's, on the body of a woman who, it was , su pposed, , had committed suicide from the fact that a bpttle wa s found inher pocket after death which appeared to have contained laudanum, and because a quarrel had taken place between her and her husband in consequence of certain alleged misconduct on her part. A medical man who had examined the body of the deceased both externally and internally de posed that he could not discover the slightest appearances to account for death. There was not the least trace of laudanum in the stomach or intestines, and it was his opinion she died from natural causes. The jury returned a verdict of " Na. tural death." A WHALE.—On Wednesday se'nnight, a fish ing-boat, named the Friends Te Arran, from Loch Ranza, in Arran, was proceeding on its way for the fishing ground, when about tour miles from Mauchry Bay, it was suddenly struck by a whale, and a large aperture formed in the right side of the boat. Fortunately the planks driven in were on the upper part, so that by stuffing their jackets and some sails into the opening, and shifting the ballast to one side, the party managed to make some way, the wind being luckily fa vourable for them, The boat, however, was no sooner within the bay, and the men attained the shore, than she sunk. The men describe the stroke made by the tail of the whale as re sembling loud thunder, and by its motion causing the sea around to boil like a cauldron. Part of the skin of this mon ster of the deer was found attached to the boat. Scots Times. BREAD.—Many of the bakers of Edinburgh on Monday raised the price of the 41b. loaf one penny—the highest price being now elevenpenee, although some bakers sell it for 10d. or 100. —Edinburgh Courant. INTRIGUES OF RUSSIA. FRANKFORT, AUG. !!. , - .2 -1 . " Tbere is mischief brewing at Berlin, or we are much mistiel. l ." t .,Such were the words I read about two months ago in a I.::,l9,4rterorary of yours when the Congress of Princes took place in Opital, and indeed there was, and moreover there is, mischief br(3.till at Berlin. The Prussian Cabinet, itself distinguished only want of character, is totally unable and unfit to take any great leading part in European politics, however much it may covet the name and the appearance of it ; but . Russia pulls her strings and plays her games so well at Berlin, and finds there so many sympathies and welcome propensities, that her present schemes would almost seem to have found a sort of centre there, at least as far as they dare disclose them even to the most friondly power. Whatever may have been concocted at St. Petersburgh. and partly dished at Berlin, no one can doubt that it is mainly directed against England. Russia knows the power of her mighty rival, and is work iag hard to strengthen her position against a struggle that sooner cc later must ensue ; she has good reasons to be afraid of a war, and therefore she boasts of her pacific policy ; she avoids the cannon-balls, but employs her miners who cork in the dark under ground. It surely is not for the mere pres sure of enjoying fresh air that the Czar this summer is seen everywhere like another Fly ing, Dutchman ; it is not for the mere farce of military shows that a host of princes was gathered to meet him at Berlin ; it is not for simply complimenting the King of Sweden that he paid a visit to Stockholm, laying .side all his notions about "upstart kings ;" nor is it only for sipping the petit lait of Kreuth that his Empress has bent her graceful steps to Munich, where a banker has received orders to have three millions in gold ready for her. The Grand Duke Cesarewitsch Alexander also is not travelling through Germany without clever companions; yet, if even there were no other frets before us than all these visits, every observer of Russian policy would be led to suspect that Russia had at present particular wishes and reasons to secure the good • graces of the German Princes. But there are other facts. Philip of Macedon wanted a seat in the Amphyctionic Coun cil, and every schoolboy knows why. Nicholas of Rus sia desires a place in the German Confederation, and an adequate vote in the Diet I This is a positive fact, and you will be s ill more surprised to hear what grounds these pretences are built upon. Esthland and Livonia, the very same provinces which the Russian Government has all along been labouring to deprive of every vestige of their German nationality, of their language and religion, as well as of their ancient political rights, the Czar now wants to be added to the Germania Confederation, in order to settle himself regularly in this country, and to exercise in a sort of legitimate manner that baneful in fluence which hitherto he had to practise [Lore covertly. It is too notorious to be unknown in England how all the German states are overrun by secret Russian agents ; how they lavish money, pensions, and orders in every direction, to secure men of talents and influence to work their plans ; and that, besides having got into their hands the Journal de Francfort of this very city, they entertain numberless scribes to advocate their schemes, and to promote their interests through the German Press. Nicholas himself intends pa) ing a visit to Bavaria, and strange indeed are some of the preparations the Russian diplomacy has required for his reception ; suffice it to men tion, that already, as far as three months back, the whole Bavarian police received instructions to be on the watch " for fifteen individuals who were in sworn league to assas sinate his Imperial Majesty." The Russian directions went so far as to add the whole of them were Polish refugees, but only of one name and description were known by secret advises from Paris, where they had been sojourning : it, therefore, would be necessary to keep a sharp eye on all Poles, and not to suffer one anywhere where Nicholas intended to make his appearance. Thus, even the German police must be employed to allay the cruel fears of the fast-travelling monarch, however unfounded they probably are. At the same time all the south of Germany is swarming with Russians, who would seem a sort of flank and body guard to the Czar. Withal it is but fair to add, that the Bavarians themselves consider the Russians Aext in succession to the devil himself, and therefore rejoice that there is now little appearance of the most unpopular and im politic match still being concluded. —Morning Chronicle. INQUEST ON A BODY BURIED TWO HUNDRED YEARS. On Monday, the 30th ult., an inquest was held before Franklin Baldwin, Esq., Coroner, upon view of the body of a man unknown, which was found by some *labourers who were cutting a trench in the bog of Munnifeugh, situate in the parish of Clondrohid, in the barony of West Muskerry, during which some extraordinary and curious circumstances were elicited. According to the deposition of Thomas Walsh, farmer, it appeared that he had seven or eight labourers employed on Wednesday, the 25th day of July, cutting a fresh trench in the bog of Munnifeugh, who having gone about four a half sods deep, two of them discovered about nine or ten sticks irregularly placed up right in the bog. On going a sod deeper they found alarge stone, which was about a half hundred weight. Anxious to discover the existence of some hidden treasure, they imme diately removed the stone, and under it was another sod, and on removing it they found the body of a man, placed on its back at full length. When discovered, the body was in a perfect state of preservation, with a cap, as Walsh said, on the head, but which most probably was the - scalp. Walsh took the length of the body at the time, and as ac curately as he could state, said it measured about six feet. A more accurate measurement was afterwards made by Mr. Baldwin, and was as follows :—From the top of the shoul der to the sole of the foot, 5 feet 2 inches ; girth of body across the navel, 3 feet 2 inches ; girth of upper part of thigh, 2 feet ; distance between the great trochanters pos teriorly, 2 feet. Walsh stated that the place where the body was found presented no appearance different from the surrounding portion of bog, and that it did not appear to have been disturbed at any recent period. He said that this , place bad the name of "Knuckpagree a DeenahaLooney, , or " Looney's Mount," and that a rumour existed in the neigh bourhood that the spot obtained this name from the fact, that a man named Denis Looney, who hanged himself on the same land, had been buried there. He also stated that this occurrence took place far beyond the memory of the oldest inhabitant of the surrounding n eighbourhood.— From the examination of another farmer named Jeremiah Kelsher, who spite that he was about sixty years of age, and that he lived in the neighbourhood of Munnifeugh . bog ever since he was born, it appe are d that he bad been in the habit of cutting down grass on the particular spot where the body was found, for years back, and that he never re marked any difference between its surface and that of the contiguous portion. He also swore that he had often beard his father say that he heard from his father there was buried about that spot a person named Denis Looney, who had hanged himself ! and, also, that he h ear d an o ld woman of the name of Judith Car roll say, that she had heard her father say, that hi s father h a d ac t e d as one o f the jurors on the inquest upon the body of Denis Looney, who she heard was buried con venient to the spot where the body was found. From the evidence of the medical gentleman who was examined upon the occasion, it appeared that he found the body with the face much disfigured, the bones of the skull separated, the chest laid open, the muscles of the upper and lower extre mities presenting an ossified appearance, and theintegu ments and muscles of the back in some degree presenting their natural condition. This gentleman also said that the bones, when handled, were converted into pulverizable mat ter, and that from the appearances presented, he believed the body must have lain in the bog for a series of years. It is much to be regretted that the medical witness was not more accurate and particular in his description ; however, we have been informed by Mr. Baldwin, that the disfigured state of the body was produced by its having been carried about with spades, as the country people would not put their hands near it, it being to them an object of supersti• tious terror, and that every part uninjured was in a perfect state of preservation. Mr. Baldwin states he stood upon the abdomen and that not the slightest impression was pro duced, and also that when he struck the thighs with consi derable force, with a stout cane, it rebounded, as if from some strong slibstancr. On raising a portion of the inte guments from the upper part of the chest, he says that the bones and muscles appeared as if the hotly had only been a few days buried, and that the whole body felt as hard and firm as solid rock. From all the circumstances detailed above we may naturally conclude that the body must have been buried for nearly two hundred years, and that it was the body of Denis Looney. The old woman mentioned ir. Kelsher's deposition, is said to have been ninety years of age, and tradition says that her gratiEtther had acted as a juror on the inquest upon the view of the body of Denis Looney, who, it also says, was buried in or about the spot above mentioned. It is a well ascertained fact that bogs contain a large portion of tan, and we are informed that formerly they were used for the purpose of tanning before that art arrived to its present state of perfection. It is, therefore, more than probable that 'this body was under going a slow proc:!ss of tanning, which a ould easily account for the high state of preservation in which it was found.— Correspondent of the Cork Constitution. We understand that George Maskelyne, the un happy man who is now under sentence of death for shooting at Mr. Humbold, will, should the sentence be carried into effect, be executed at the New Prison, in this town, and not at Salis bury.— Wilts Independent. A few days ago, a boy, about 15 years of age, an apprentice to Mr. Hull, wheelwright, of Melbourne, attempted to poison his master and mistress by putting arsenic into the sugar which they were about to use for breakfast, and which they actually put into their coffee, but the cream not being added to it the poison was detected by its colour. The wretched boy had bought the arsenic under the pretence of poisoning rats and mice, which he said were so troublesome that travel lers would not come to their house. Mr. Hull keeps a small b..-er-shop. The lad got up before the rest of the family to mix the poison with the sugar; he has absconded. -_Derby Reporter. STEAM CARRIAGE FRONI PARIS TO BRUSSELS• —The Nouvelliste states that a steam carriage is to start from the Barriere de l' Etoile, on Sunday next, to proceed to Brussels, the engineer expecting to do the distance, 60 leagues, in 12 hours. GARDENING OPERATIONS YOlt THE WEEK. ( From the Gardeners' Gazette.) etty The " beeak" of hot weather for our readers wag correct ; our citations were, we hope, useful: good ill .0 hada v i i we acted upon thc - m ourselves. The burning sun out in gene harm sometimes—in an hour to plants stand in g' p'do than can be rerned:ed in a whole season, and sometimes came :rrrparable l. Dithills MUM: kle oss carefully trained to three or fo ur stakes ci t by depending on Gate, which is a frequent practice , a hi g h 1,4', will destroy the hopes of a season . Continue to a ttend to c eamigs. prettdbespe ak" Hearts-ease seed may he sova :a a shady border or in seed' pans which can be conveniently rernOved to the shade. IheY V 4 be fully established by the winter,. and many of them bloom late in the autumn. Continue to gather pads of choice se,lt2 of all kinds as they riy en. done , If all layering of Carnations and Piceotees be not there no time to lose; the plants wilt ha,•dly have time t° root unless instantly completed. Kitchen Garden as berore. , . it Ropair, paint, and cleanse all houses, pits, fralleß, " c '' is the best time of year. Many plants can be turn , ld out alw gether, and there is no difficulty in emptying a plac e• ', te a Keep all weeds under: it is essential that none be l'er rr ' l. to seed. and this is but a short operation in warm wea ter; week's neglect is almost fatal. Keep your eye upon the field crops of corn and seed , 0., lays ar! dangerous ; or, as we wrote in our youth, .4 procras 30 nation is the thief of time ;" never lose an hour's dayligh t fine weather. EJECTION OF TEN ANTR Y. (From the Cork Reporter.) Two regiments, cavalry and infantry, proceeded frlti this city on Wednesday, and returned yesterday , ( L fter ; march of fifty Irish miles, to assist the Sheriff in exec ut '% a writ of Hobert', it being apprehended that the tenan ts possession might not properly appreciate this act of ge t l,, rosity unless it was r;mdered intelligible to them byin appearance of a large .-nilitary force. It will apP ear England rather singular that a generous landlord can I I take possession of a farm, the ramre of which has ogli tt h e u i without the aid of regiments of Jtavalry and infantry ; the problem may be solved by consicLning the extreme stn of dity of the Irish peasantry, and how - incapable they ar t cAlmating acts of true generosity ! trd We shall not probably again refer to this subject, shall, therefore, merely mention welave the best authorti,. for stating that the pretences under which those poor Pl.. c , i pie were dispossessed and made objects for relief under 'th new Poor-law, are wholly unfounded. The tenantry, v, one or two exceptions, were well conducted, indu stri° l J and solvent ; they had all sufficient means to stock ° IR improve their farms, and they paid their rents punctuate,/ and regularly. It is alleged by those who have condi.° me, the extraordinary proceedings, in Lord Bandon's naT e i against this now houseless portion of his teciantry, a bet was t ha te a amongst of their other crimes and misdemeanors, illicit distillation. A singular fact has been comlnu aie n a fo• to us with respect to this serious imputation of .'nur i- w ho turing potteen. An individual on the propertfr, d - bo merely held a house and field from Mr. Gillman, anu could not be properly called, from the limited extent of ,be holding, one of the tenants, was the only person on estate known or supposed to be engaged in the manufacture of illicit whiskey. Now will the public hazard a e onjec to ; o as to what are the notions of Lord Bandon's advisers gl a ; st the proper mode of dispensing retributive justice amu n i , a a - s the tenants on a tract of land where illicit whiskey been manufactured? The person who distilled the potteea, has been retained as a care-taker on the property , at„o - of 20 guineas a year, and the tenants who hacl : " li t thing to do with the manufacture, but who, we fear, ' t he have been immoral enough to become consumers 01 - to article, are sent, with the aid of cavalry and infantrY° seek habitations and means of livelihood elsewhere ! We have now done with the subject. In the facts circumstances to which we have adverted, and whie, - 11 be have every re ason t o b e li eve are correct an d t rue , it vgl' . _ . difficult to dis cern an y t race o f generos i ty or o f justice. W MEETING AT THE C O R N E XC EIAI4.----, 5 Mr. O'Connell made one of hi s b es t an d m ost jut ' the speeches, and, considering the just provocation whi e "or" country has received, a most moderate one. He " ba st dered his account," says a Morning Contemporary, " a n believe few of his constituents will feel much dispos e , d a 0 sa y, question its accuracy. We might go a little further, sn° l3o o that the sum total will be placed at once to his credit, vi" the formality of an audit. Mr. O'Connell's speech on Y en , terday was little more than a reference to the past- 0 05, braced such a multiplicity of topics, viz.,—the Tory pets tee the defence of the Catholic Clergy, the constitution of ip tion Committees, the proceedings of Select Committees_%es, eluding those appointed to inquire into the fictitiou s joint-stock banks, and combination), the Irish Poor-law fro the affairs of Canada, the grocers and publicans, th e n eerporations, the Tithe Bill, the hostility o f the Eg g Tories, the conduct of the Lords i n re f erence to h tions, and, though last not least, our p ros pects--th at Hon. Gentleman could only glance at each. On saturcil he will speak of the future." Mr. O'Connell's next SP ee b e e will be still more interesting, as it will have reference to t hi course to which the people of Ireland have been enforce d the Lords.—Dublin .Evgniny Post. r i NAPOLEON FR O EXPULSION OF PRI NCE L OU IS NAPOLEO SWITZERLAND. —lt is not fer the canton of Thurgau, but fo n r a t rto Federal Directory, to pronout:ce whether M. Louis Boner n o is Swiss or not . I t h as been said that M. Lou i s B ona parte, to to create difficulties for the Swi s s Government, consent! 10 leave Switzerland. Conciliating as we are, this ought 00 content France. Th e Government of France did not addn itself to M. Louis Bonaparte, but to Switzerland. His. " A na tary departu re i mp li es h i s return when b e may f anc y it; nothing less than a declaration of the Federal Di re ctor,' bi t content the F renc h G overnment. B ut i t appears c ertain e 4; e " M. Louis B onaparte w ill not accept the t i tle of Siv i .4 s cit iz 0 , and should he remain in Switzerland, the French GoYe rllM Not will consider Switzerland responsible for his intrigues ~4 00 . l ong sin ce hi s f o ll owers were making recruits for him at ' it ~p reim and Baden, and addressed themselves to the young not Jerome Bonapa r t e , at S tutgar d , reproac hi ng him wit"Qcsiso being by the side of the Emperor Louis at Arenenberg• eminent p ersons entreated M. Louis Bonaparte, in the neer. of the French Government, to quit Arenenberg. He. rer e . that 40,000 f. a year (1,600/. ) did not allow him to live In ; r i c o land. It was then stated that the consent of the At ts- ,,, - :th Government should be obtained to his residing in JOY - his father, but the young Prince refused."—Paris paPer• b ee A The hay h arvest i n our neighbourhood has os t generally w e ll got up . Th e crops of corn are for th e :Tor, part in a forward state, in excellent condition. Oats, 13 t o so and even Wh eat h ave b een cut in several places, Anusattee samples were s o ld a t our mar k et on T ues d ay. A c onon — der theo of the si kplree,s and en l t fairtex next weekweatherh harvest the will soon become tlie W goner'he Wheats t/il t, Norwich Mercury. ) The Express coach on its way to London 1 1 5 ' 1 week, when near Mere Hall, about six miles from Li B L - 0 4 came up to a waggon laden with wood, and the cone", — e a called aloud to hint to make room. A y oung man, nl. - ) t e Hayward, of Dunstan, it is supposed was asleep on one U ", t ll , pieces of timber, and being suddenly awakened by the , 0 -3 0 , started up, and rolled off under the wheels of the v"grcbc which passed across his neck and killed him instantly- e unfortunate man was about tw e nty years of age, and his o'4 was driving the horses when the accident occurred. Hes t for some time like one stunned, until the dreadful realitY n b t his loss caused him t o b rea k out i n w ild d espa ir.—Linc" Mercury. PATENT LEVER WATCH Four and a Half Guineas each. f or, A variety of Second-hand Wat c h es , on thi s ce lebrated ceri'"oleo. Lion, with going f uzee , t o con ti nue go i ng w hil e w i n ding up, ,le 0 4 in four holes, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel ! dial o r' other modern improvements, are offered at the above price;ratch ranttA, at COX SAVORY'S, Jeweller, Silversmith, and \`'., r ell' maker, 47, Cornhill, London (Seven D oors f rom Graceeo" street). BIRTHS. On the 10th inst., the lady of John Hayward, Esq., of a r ri ; f J. On the 14th inst., at Willesden-lodge, Middlesex, the lady Railton, Esq., of Snittlegarth, Cumberland, of a son. Bant le' On the 16th inst., in Highbury-place, Mrs. George IT. man, of a son. Grote At West-hall, Mortlake on the 16111 inst., the lady of Tyrrell, EFq., o f a d aughter. of On the 17th inst., at. Cadoga n -pl ace, Ch e l sea, Mrs. 13 u r g 05, a daughter. " O en the 14 th inst. MARRIED. , , at Fairlie, Ay rs hi re , Ed war d C ar dwell, late Fellow o f B all i ol College, Oxford, to Annie, youngest of the late C. S. Parker, Esq. t '''' On the 15th i nst., at Tore Church, Devon, Richard, sec° Caro of John Taylor, Esq., F.R.S., of Coed Du, North Wales, W eem it' line Ann, youngest daughter of G. H. Dyke Esq. late Linut i.,1 `tonlonel of the 'Coldstream. Guards. - ' -flern a ;,r the 16th inst., at St. James's, Clcrkenwell, Pierre rr a rl" Clerc, Esq., to Charlotte Chase, eldest daughter of Dar'' . c hi' Shitherd, Esq., of Pentonville. , Four 11. On the 16th inst., at. Wells, Somersetshire, Mr. Josel' of ' vier, of Ililderstone, Staffordshire, to Sophia, fifth daught er Bro3ks, Esq., of Postway-house. fstl': On the 16th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Peter StainshY, co of Mecklenburgh-square. to 'Miss Lewis, of Stamford-ha lt ' ~-i(l",, daughter of the late T. Lewis, Esq., of Quecn-street, C hea. ` ' .l o On the 16th inst., at BlunsdOn St. Andrew, Wiltshire, ~,,,,', Tyrrell, Esq., Barrister-at -law, of Lincoln's inn, and of J 30.5 Surrey, to Diana Mary, second (laughter of the late Re v ' Wyhl, of Blunsdon-house, rector of Blunsdon St. Andrew'_--- ---- ---- _ o d e r D lED. On the 15th inst. 'at Llwttgwern, North Wales, C °ll"'la Philip Puleston Wynne, R.V.(I s ° are' 011 the 12th inst., William Close, Esq., of St. John'." 'fe'l f Clerkenwell, aged 73. , , ,,1 On the 14th inst.. at St. Peter's, near Ramsgate, Ja ne ' I ,VC r Mr. G. Sparks, of Kin-street, Tower-hill. ' 4 II On the 1.3111 inst Catharina, wife of M. Von Hoist, ( ~ Cl Fitzroy-square, aged 68. .. I,iidieY, , On th e 15th in3t., at Addlestone, Surrey, Mr. engraver, aged i '3 William _....,,,, of London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUirG e otl u l • 112, Str an d, a t Th e S un Office, No. 112, Strand , ,n the of Middlesex.—Monday, August 20, 1838.